Samudra's Journal

by vren55

Entry 107: A Conversation

Today, I mortally wounded Tethys, but before that, we had a… conversation.

The battle was fierce, and frankly, the conversation was more like the pair of us screaming at each other, venting about this damn war, whilst trying to kill each other and end it.

That being said… I think this is the first time… ever that I was responding to her offer of peace, because I did get something out of that talk though.

According to Tethys, and she was frustratingly brief on this, Yoth-Atal didn’t intend to create the kelpies to eat sapients. That was an unintended consequence. She wanted to make them self-sufficient, and should I cease fighting her and lend her my magic, she could make it so that they eventually would not need to eat sapients.

I find this explanation… “problematic” to paraphrase Chamelia.

Yoth-Atal is powerful enough to cause hallucinations and visions in me, bypassing any spells I put up, apart from that massive one that Starswirl and I came up with. The fact she can’t design the kelpies to be self-sufficient sounds incredibly suspicious.

That being said, I must admit that since the kelpies came after I placed that spell on Yoth, it may be that her power has been limited, but still there’s no way to prove that Tethys is right.

Okay there is a way, but that’d be to give Yoth-Aatal my power and I am NOT willing to do that.